Digital computer design
by Raymond M. Kline · first published 1977
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…hardware design" which talks about the minicomputers and their architecture that DEC designed. "Introduction to Computer Systems using the PDP-11 and PASCAL" (McGraw-Hill computer science series). And "Digital Computer Design" by Kline. All are out of print but a good computer science section in a library should have them. One of the reasons I enjoy the older books on computer design is that they assume you don't know why…
on “A2Z: A computer designed and built from scratch. Custom CPU on FPGA (2017)” ↗…logic circuits and electroluminescent logic circuits. I have to say that the 1950s came up with the best names; modern technologies just don't measure up to transfluxors, parametrons, and cryotrons. See Digital Computer Design Fundamentals, 1962, chapter 6.
on “Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes” ↗